Calm Your Mind with Food: A Doctor’s Guide to Using Nutrition to Reduce Anxiety, Stress and Improve Mental Health - Couverture souple

Naidoo, Uma

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1526664488 ISBN 13 : 9781526664488

Editeur : Bloomsbury Tonic, 2024

Synopsis

Reduce anxiety. Improve your mood. Support your mental health - through food.

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'The antidote to stress. Essential reading.'
Tim Spector, author of Food for Life

What if the key to calming your mind is on your plate?

Anxiety is at an all-time high, but according to nutritional psychiatrist Dr Uma Naidoo, what you eat can have a powerful impact on how you feel.

In Calm Your Mind With Food, Dr Naidoo combines cutting-edge science with practical advice to show how nutrition, the gut microbiome and brain health work together to influence anxiety, mood and mental wellbeing.

Inside, you'll learn how to:
- Use food and nutrition to reduce anxiety and stress naturally
- Support your brain through the gut-brain connection
- Build a diet that improves mood, focus and resilience
- Identify foods that help-or worsen-anxiety and depression
- Create simple, effective anti-anxiety meal plans

With Dr Uma's six key pillars, expert guidance and easy, nutrient-rich recipes, this is a practical, science-backed guide to mental health through diet. Whether you're struggling with anxiety, low mood or stress, this book gives you the tools to take back control: one meal at a time.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Uma Naidoo, MD is a board-certified psychiatrist (Harvard Medical School), professional chef (Cambridge School of Culinary Arts), and nutrition specialist (Cornell University). She is currently the Director of Nutritional and Lifestyle Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), where she consults on nutritional interventions for the psychiatrically and medically ill; Director of Nutritional Psychiatry at the Massachusetts General Hospital Academy; and has a private practice in Newton, MA. She also teaches at The Cambridge School of Culinary Arts.

Dr. Naidoo speaks frequently at conferences at Harvard, for Goop audiences, the New York City Jewish Community Center (JCC), and Ivy Boston. She blogs for Harvard Health and Psychology Today and has just completed a unique video cooking series for the MGH Academy which teaches Nutritional Psychiatry using culinary techniques in the kitchen.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

When it comes to fighting anxiety, you have more control than you think: the power is at the end of your fork.

We're in the middle of a global anxiety epidemic, but in Calm Your Mind With Food, bestselling author and nutritional psychiatrist Dr Uma Naidoo gives you the tools to take back control. Dr Naidoo draws on the latest science to demonstrate how an understanding of how both the brain and gut microbiome works, and a diet that creates a strong foundation for mental health, will equip you to control your anxiety.

In this revolutionary, solutions-focussed and full-body approach to relieving anxiety, you'll learn:
· Dr Uma's six pillars to calm the mind
· How inflammation affects everything from anxiety and depression to Alzheimer's disease
· How the trillions of bacteria living in your gut are key to controlling anxiety
· How to incorporate anxiety-busting foods into your diet, from the obscure (ashwagandha) to the ubiquitous (vitamin C)
· Which foods you should avoid as you make anti-anxiety eating choices
· The best diets for managing symptoms of anxiety and depression

With guidelines for creating your own personal anti-anxiety meal plan and dozens of supernutrient-forward, delicious recipes, Dr Naidoo shows how to effectively use food and nutrition as essential tools for calming the mind. This ground-breaking guide will help you boost your immunity, reduce anxiety and enhance your overall mental well-being.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Tonic
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1526664488
• ISBN 13: 9781526664488
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; contact@bloomsbury.com; ; 50 Bedford Square; London; England; WC1B 3DP; Allemagne